Quotes About Change

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I played point guard my whole life.

I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.

I don't think my voice has changed very much when it comes to things that I create. It's just my perspective, my point of view, and I guess that really hasn't changed very much. Luckily, it hasn't had to change in order for me to work.

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

We want to change to point of view about Latinos in the world and Colombians. Forget about the bad past.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

I love 'Pointless', part of the genius of the show is that it's always a different story.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.